Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Epi56: Kickstartin' With Michael Celestino

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Greeting, Succotashians,
and apologies for the late droppage of Epi56 of the Comedy Podcast
Podcast. Due to travels and a bum external hard drive, I've been
hard-pressed to pull it all together for this one, but it's finally
happened.

Those who listen
regularly have discovered that, as much as this show is dedicated
to podcasts of the comedy variety, we also split out interests
amongst both podcasts in general and comedy in the larger sense.
Particularly where our interviews are concerned. This episode
features a quick chat with filmmaker Michael Celestino, who
is in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 to fund
his latest project, That's Not Funny, where he looks at why
and how people find various subjects offensive, especially when
coming from a comedian expounding on the topic.

The trailer that he put
together to kick off the project already features some well-known
and outspoken comic types, including Paul Provenza, Greg
Proops, Jackie Kashian, Emery Emery, and Kyle
Kinane. Have a listen to our epi, take a squint at the video
we've embedded on our homesite here at http://SuccotashShow.com,
and then click on the link to throw a few bucks Mike's way to help
make this important film a reality.

THE
SORT-OF-COUNTDOWN

Here’s the latest of The 10 Most Active in
the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast
List!

Our regular blast from
Will Durst is all about the opening of baseball season. (The
one thing that worked out by this episode being late is that Durst
is technically off this week, fine-tuning his new one man show,
BoomerAging - From LSD to OMG, that debuts shortly on
Tuesdays at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco. Get more details at
WillDurst.com!)

THE
CLIPS

The
Standup Chronicles
Host Adam Harris sent along a clip of his chat with comedian
Dave Coulier. Most people know him from the Full
House TV series, but he’s been doing standup for 30+ years and
even appeared on The Tonight Show back when Johnny
Carson was the host. Dave recounts the lead up to that
experience.

Who Charted?
Here's a show that's over on the Earwolf network that’s very
popular – sorry to take so long to get around to it! The show’s
main focus is to tell you what’s hot and happening via various
charts – movies, music and more. Hosted by Howard Kremer and
Kulap Vilaysack, their guest is the very funny, very dry,
very cool Matt Walsh. In the clip, Matt and Howard exchange
stories about getting scammed for pot and
tickets.

The Fogelnest
Files
Another offering from Earwolf is Jay Fogelnest's show,
The Fogelnest Files, that aims it's humor and analyses on a
variety of topics. Our clip featuring him and guest Gabe
Delahaye talking about a guy doing a YouTube review of the
scorpion jacket from the movie Drive.

Inverse DeliriumFriend-of-SuccotashGeoffrey Welchman sends along a sketch from his Inverse
Delirium podcast that I'm just calling "The Doctor Sketch".
He's also got a great chat with Lewis Black on Epi61 of ID,
so check it out.

Wrong Foot Podcast
We have a second sketch for this week's show - makes for a nice
break from all the pop culture/news yak fests going on in
Podcastland, doesn't it? The folks over at The Wrong Foot
provide a little something from Epi91, their Baseball Episode. It
feels a little like some classic Cheech & Chong. Since I
mangle the Wrong Foot cat members names in the podcast,
htere they are in text form: Weston Prescott, Janice DelDubio,
Ray Hemerley, Gail Wavenly, Antonio Belia, S. M. Rombarawitz, Loren
Schofield, Gene Dale, Richard A. Goldberg, Lydia Linda Lorna,
and Pierre Vuilleumier.

Dorktown
The Dorktown podcast is out of Fresno, CA, Bells,
Mikey, and Becky talk about a lot of stuff and have
their own Top 25 podcast ratings on their homesite, a rating that
changes every month. (Happy to see us sitting at #5 in March!) Our
slice from a recent episode features the trio in a the classic
debate: Kegstands vs Beer Bongs.

The Firnecast
Host Dan Firnekas and Mandy Firnekas are a
brother/sister team and this epi does family to the third power
when they add guest (and dad) Allen Firnekas. They're out of
Wyoming, which is may go down as the birthplace of something
clipped from their show - Karaoke Rap. Especially as done by the
senior Firnekas.

The Double Special
Show
Although it's referred to as a "weekly comedy radio show" by host
Chris Gorges, Jordan Lee & Tiffany Barbee, it
seems like a podcast to me. Out of Tampa Bay, Florida, they have
call-in guests, snipe at pop culture and also go after those news
stories - such as the move to offer police protection to
punks.

That's the rundown for
Epi56. Hope you enjoy our clippage and other stuff this week
(including a fresh commercial from Henderson's
Pants!)